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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (31448)11/13/2003 2:43:51 PM
From: lurqer  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
How else to explain the vice president's success in creating a parallel universe inside the White House that is shaping the real universe?

Most liberals don't understand Cheney's appeal to conservatives. Some liberals see Cheney as an ideologue, whose bullying military mindset leads to bloody policy choices. Other liberals see him as a war profiteer, that has cynically used a national fear campaign to start wars and the loot the nation's treasury, for the benefit of the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). Neither view explains his popularity with conservatives and particularly with GWB. But consider that his voice, demeanor and words perfectly fit the strict father model.

The conservative worldview, the strict father model, assumes that the world is dangerous and difficult and that children are born bad and must be made good. The strict father is the moral authority who supports and defends the family, tells his wife what to do, and teaches his kids right from wrong. The only way to do that is through painful discipline — physical punishment that by adulthood will become internal discipline. The good people are the disciplined people. Once grown, the self-reliant, disciplined children are on their own. Those children who remain dependent (who were spoiled, overly willful, or recalcitrant) should be forced to undergo further discipline or be cut free with no support to face the discipline of the outside world.

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Given what we know of GWB’s early life and his relationship with his father, this model explains much.

JMO

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